My Name is Nobody is one of the finest westerns ever made. [critique]

The cult film with Henry Fonda and Terence Hill returns this Monday evening on C8.

My name is Nobodyof Tonino Valeriifollows Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda), a legend of the West, who wants to end his career as a gunslinger and plans to sail for Europe. But a young admirer, claiming to be Nobody (Terence Hill), has other plans. He wants to make Beauregard a part of history by having him fight the Wild Bunch.

While the prestigious Sergio Leone is credited with the screenplay, the master of the western actually had the original idea for the story, but it was written by Fulvio Morsella, Leone's brother-in-law, and Ernesto Gastaldi. In 2016, on the death of the director Tonino Valeriiwe paid tribute to the latter while recalling to what extent My name is Nobody has changed the history of the western. A classic not to be missed, tonight on C8.

“My Name is Nobody, therefore, is one of the most beautiful Westerns ever made. We know that Leone long claimed paternity for the film (which he had the idea for and which he produced), but today, no one doubts it any more: this swan song, this homage at once joyful, sad and loving to the Western is indeed the work of Valerii (Leone is said to have only directed the urinal scene). Nobody is the story of a strange friendship, that between an old, worn-out hero of the West and a young lone wolf. Jack de Beauregard and Nobody. Henry Fonda and Terence Hill. Unlike the run-of-the-mill genre, the film is not a schoolboyish and grimacing variation, but an admiring and theoretical one on the Western. First conceived as Leone's response to the farcical successes of Terence Hill which, according to him, perverted spaghetti, Valerii's film very quickly transforms into a melancholic reflection on filiation, old age and the end of an era. And behind the popular hit, there is an ironic and moving postscript to the genre, a farewell to the western in general, thanks to the magnificent presence of Fonda, and a wonderful compilation of the myths of the West and those of old Europe (one can see the film as a rereading of the Odyssey).”

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